scarborough man

They were pals. Accused killer Col. Russell Williams and notorious serial killer Paul Bernardo, both attended the University of Toronto Scarborough campus. They both studied economics at the Military Trail campus in the mid-80s. They both graduated together in 1987, Williams, 46, with a politics and economics degree, Bernardo, 45, with a commerce and economics degree. Their families both lived along the Scarborough bluffs. Now police sources say the two were college “pals” who may have partied together and that their relationship is the subject of intensive scrutiny by the joint forces team probing the murders of Cpl. MarieFrance Comeau and Jessica Lloyd. source

wikipedia: On July 15, 2009, Williams was sworn in as the Wing Commander at Canadian Forces Base Trenton by the outgoing Wing Commander Brigadier General Mike Hood. [30] ... He had flown Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh, the Governor General of Canada, the Prime Minister of Canada, and many other dignitaries across Canada and overseas in Canadian Forces VIP aircraft.

Bernardo, Homolka (Leanne Bordelais, Karla Leanne Teale), Williams, Magnotta were from Metroplitan Toronto/GTA, Scarborough.

Montreal Gazette (Jan 15, 2015): documentary airs

eric newman, eric clinton kirk newman, luka rocco magnotta (2006), [Renee Bordelais, Hubert Chrétien, Logan Valentini, John Kilbride (Moors murders), Kirk Trammel, Sharon, Catherine] 

shrinks: Thick file (Dec 9, 2014) from late nineties includes a schizophrenia diagnosis: "As a condition for release to Canada, German officials demanded a psychiatrist accompany Luka Magnotta on the June 2012 flight. Dr. Joel Watts, after receiving a request from the Montreal police, took on that role... Watts was but one in a long line of doctors who treated or assessed Magnotta — though he was the only one to meet with the killer in both capacities.... The defence also hired Dr. Marie-Frédérique Allard to assess the defendant’s responsibility in the killing. While both doctors individually spend dozens of hours with Magnotta, he refused to meet with any Crown-retained psychiatrists." Forsenic psychiatrist, Dr. John Bradford, didn't work on the case because of [Bernardo, Homolka, Pickton et al.] PTSD, which he previously didn't believe was a condition (weird, he's a shrink).

WARNING GRAPHIC 

As lucrative as the stripper, escort and gay porn business may be, how did Magnotta get money and passports to travel, from Toronto, to New York, Florida, London, Montreal, to Dr Joel Paris, France and Berlin. In 2007, Magnotta said online rumours about him dating Karla Homolka affected his career, which was "going downhill these days, to be honest with you." He was marked (Joe Warmington interview Toronto Sun, 2007) in Toronto, marked (New York kitten videos, 2011, Magnotta said: client "Manny" Manuel Lopez made him do it and that he didn't know how the videos got online, "Rebecca" owned the python) and marked (Alex West interview, Sun, hotel by Wembly, Dec 2011) in London.

At trial
Magnotta's father: allegations that son had an affair with his wife trial, yikes (Oct 31, 2014)
Magnotta's mother: put children's pet rabbits outside to freeze to death in the winter yikes, seeking help, compulsive hair pulling (Nov 14, 2014)

Four packages of international student Jun Lin were sent to 1) False Creek Elementary School near Olympic Village, 2) St. George's private boys school on the west end (both Vancouver), conservative hq (Albert St, Ottawa, partially opened by Jenni Byrne, issues manager for the prime minister, who notified Nigel Wright, "Neil Fenton" etc) and 4) liberal hq/ intercepted by Canada Post ("You need to speak to Laureen Teskey and her family, lots to hide"). The Crown suggested Lin's murder was à la mode Basic Instinct (straddled, stabbed and an ice pick which was a silver-painted screwdriver).

Charged with first-degree murder and 4 other counts ["Magnotta is charged with first-degree murder, committing an indignity to a human body, publishing obscene material, criminally harassing Prime Minister Stephen Harper and other members of Parliament and mailing obscene and indecent material."] (Dec 9, 2014)

Jenni Byrne dated Ottawa MP Pierre Poillievre (CON: Nepean-Carleton) ("the (other) woman behind Harper"). On May 29, 2012, a foul-smelling package was brought to her by an assistant.

surface subways

Alrighty. John Tory, if elected mayor, will create a subway line that doesn’t go underground.

SmartTrack

Toronto has 44 councillors. Los Angeles has 15 councillors; Paris, 162. The 2014 Toronto Mayoral Election takes place on October 27, 2014.

on the dime

Jim Flaherty said he was not aware of friend's tax haven dealings. Oopsie, $3 million worth of gold was sold off as slag — at a fraction of its worth. {to whom?}

The Jims, Flaherty and Love, Chairman of Royal Canadian Mint

Anyway. Following his budget speech last March, Flaherty railed against “people hiding their money offshore and avoiding Canadian taxes.” link

In other news, wow Julian Fantino has four pensions: in addition to getting a cabinet minister’s salary, benefit and pension package, Fantino is pulling in pensions from the Toronto police, the London police and the OPP.

Closure of veterans' offices, Lump Sum Disability Award and veteran suicides.

spybots & fire sales

The Canadian government is selling embassies, e.g., Paris 35/37 avenue Montaigne, 5 rue de Constantine (UNESCO). It sold One Grosvenor Square last month, where John Baird vacationed with six friends Christmas 2012.

Macdonald House

These do not include Canadian embassies that now are shared with UK embassies or the Buffalo N.Y. consulate that first was renovated ($1.5m) and had a 10-year lease.

In other news, Canada set up spy posts for the National Security Agency/ Central Security Service (NSA/CSS), the 'main producer and manager of signals intelligence (SIGINT)' for the United States of America; PM Harper allowed Six Eyes foreignersNSA to spy at a billion dollar G20 summit in Toronto, 2010. And what about that Muskoka and infrastructure fund to reduce border congestion.

In other fire sale news: selling a Crown corporation (AECL) for $12.3 million to SNC-Lavalin, without a value-for-money audit.

bangbangbang ... bang bang.. bang bang ... bang, bang

3 shots, 2 shots, 2 shots, 2 shots. That's 9 shots and the other officers just stand around lalalala and then he was tasered.

SY: "You're a fucking pussy." JF: "Drop the knife." Enhanced video of police shooting Sammy Yatim, Saturday, July 27, 2013

James Forcillo and group of police

"The officer who tasered a Toronto teenager after he was shot multiple times on a streetcar is under investigation." theglobeandmail.com

Update. Toronto officer charged with second-degree murder in the streetcar shooting of Sammy Yatim last summer has been charged again with attempted murder "leaving him in an apparent contradiction: prosecutors claim he both murdered and attempted to murder the Toronto teen." thestar.com, Jul 30 2014

bear eats bear, navy ship hits navy ship

 Subject-Object Agreement

The grizzly bear ate the whole thing. Bear No. 122 and the little black bear.

En route to Hawai'i, during routine exercises, the destroyer HMCS (Her Majesty's Canadian Ship) Algonquin and supply ship HMCS Protecteur, collide. The fleet of .. now has a few gaps.

“Poison Stupid Donut Burger from Hell"

Dr. Berger, Toronto Public Health, investigates berger burger. Cronut poisonings at CNE (Canadian National Exhibition). A cronut has croissant-doughnut mix for a bun. 34 reported cases of foodborne illness.

Update cronuts in a jam: Maple bacon jam identified as culprit in more than 220 reported cases. Le Dolci, La Dolci, Canadian National Exhibit, Staphylococcus aureus toxin. (CTV) recipe: bacon, maple syrup, water and brown sugar, refrigerate. other CNE controversies when a Gucci bag is $20, ...

Domestic terrorist suspect, John Nuttall, now is a -> certified <- nutter. One of a pair who apparently planned to bomb the grounds of the B.C. Legislative Assembly on July 1st and who might have been given pressure cookers by Mr Biggs, RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) has certification and was transferred.

update: DNA, horse meat, taco bell, iceland

wowzers. Imitation calamari = hog rectum ('bung')

So, there's horse meat at three Taco Bells in London UK. "Meanwhile, in Iceland, a food official said his team had found a beef product which contained no meat at all."

There was no mammalian DNA in beef pies, said Chief meat inspector Kjartan Hreinsson.

Taco Bell joins a long list of food providers — Nestle, Burger King, Tesco, Birds Eye, Findus and even Ikea — that have had to remove products amid horse meat revelations.

naziwhiteés: rob ford, heinz fromm, gaffes

The mayor of Toronto says he just didn't know that this racial-holy-war guy was a neo-nazi (jesusfucking christ! the suit, buddy, the fuckingsuit) holythe fuck

"Me meeting with Toronto’s Mayor, Rob Ford to get an
endorsement for the Latvian Homeguard — at Toronto City Hall.

Well. um, okay. The German spy chief (Heinz Fromm, president of domestic intelligence agency, Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV)), resigned earlier this month, because 'important documents relating to the National Socialist Underground terror cell investigation' were shredded--and look at this, the 'three members ... relied on a vast support network'.

On tour, Mittus Romneyus, the Anglo-Saxon, doth charmeth London.

stupid pandas{5yrs}, p-bear, toronto {hogtown}, jasmine junkets

A new little orphanish polar bear at the Toronto Zoey: "The three-month-old cub is the only survivor from a litter of three that was rejected by their mother at birth." pizzaville source

Junket: "Hogtown has been thrown into a state of panda-monium since a report surfaced that Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s trip to China next week would include an announcement that a pair of pandas would be coming to Toronto." when the tigers leave pizzaville.ca source

More stories: 7 big topics for Harper's China trip (including pandas), How panda diplomacy became bear-knuckle haggling, China's panda loan could signal cuddly new relations Pandas, pipelines top PM's China trip

Mo Li Hua (Jasmine Flowers):
the symbol of Chinese Music

On censorship, pruning jasmine:  "Chang started to tell CNN from New York, but then the gym’s TV screen went black. CNN switched back on 30 seconds later and a Hong Kong-based anchor bid Chang thanks and farewell, leaving at least one jogger in the U.S. hotel joint venture with China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs wondering what had been said."  mr sloth source, costa rica

More stories: Revolution' Coverage Censored in China, Jasmine Becomes Contraband in China, AFP: China web users call for 'Jasmine Revolution', After Jasmine Revolution Video, U.S. Envoy to China Hunstman's ..., Why J-A-S-M-I-N-E is censored ? - China Watch, China Censorship Watch - Filed under 'Jasmine, China detains, censors bloggers on 'Jasmine Revolution

Nyage Sonamdrugyu (Sopa)

Itinerary: "Harper is expected to hit at least three cities during his nearly week-long trade mission to China — his second official visit as prime minister — including the capital of Beijing, southern trade port of Guangzhou (near Hong Kong) and the southwestern hub of Chongqing." netflix source

Tibet: "His case is a special one because he was considered a bodhisattva, a "living Buddha": monks considered revivals of great masters of the past." cathay pacific source